scrofulosis

Baldness or premature gray hair is usually a pathological indication, as is also the dishevelled hair of nervous people and children suffering from scrofulosis, while rich, glossy hair is always a sign of good health.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

A hyperaemic condition of the eyelids, with or without inflammation, is always a symptom of a dysaemic condition of the entire system (scrofulosis).

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

In some cases of scrofulosis there is not another visible sign on the entire body, and yet the eyelids and eyelashes, which sticks together most of the time, tell the story of an inherited condition of dysaemia.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

Just as in the case of scrofulosis, a rich diet is recommended for syphilis.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

Form VI is best for patients suffering from scrofulosis.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

A bloated nose with a tendency to become sore is an indication of a disposition to scrofulosis.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

Perspiring feet are a symptom of disposition to colds and possibly tuberculosis, while perspiring hands indicate certain nervous diseases and disposition to gout; constantly cold hands and feet are usually found in people who suffer from scrofulosis or anaemia.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

Digestive disturbance, constipation, menstrual irregularities, chlorosis, general debility, lack of tone in the muscular fibres of the skin, scrofulosis; and medicinal substances such as the iodides and bromides internally, and tar externally.

Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886

For instance, if the system is heavily encumbered with scrofulous taints and if its vitality is lowered to such an extent that the individual cell cannot of itself throw off the morbid encumbrances by means of a vigorous, acute effort, sulphur, if administered in doses sufficiently triturated and refined to affect the minute cells composing the organism, will start disease vibrations similar to those of acute scrofulosis, and thus give the needed impetus to acute eliminative activity on the part of the individual cell.

Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893